Facebook and other social platforms have been fighting online misinformation and hate speech for two years. There are signs that they're making some headway, although they're still a very long way from winning the war.

With respect to misinformation on Twitter, there is a common misunderstanding that it works with, say 100,000 bots posting rubbish from different handles. “That is not how it works.They actually organize battalions" said Samani.

The India heads of global internet and social media giants should face criminal proceedings in case their platforms are used to spread fake news and other ‘sinister’ campaigns that lead to lynching and riots

Google said it blocked 39 YouTube channels that had racked up to total of 13,466 views in the US on "relevant videos" and disabled six accounts at Blogger and 13 accounts at its Google+ social network.